Annil Chandel

Recruitment Entrepreneur

I work directly with James Caan CBE as part of the Recruitment Entrepreneur's HQ Team, speaking with founders and entrepreneurs around the world who are looking to start up, scale, or sell their own recruitment businesses.

I am responsible for managing the Middle East and India.

Recruitment Entrepreneur founded with James Caan CBE, offers a unique investment platform providing entrepreneurial leaders of start-ups and scale-ups, and their teams, with an enterprise-level solution, along with full operational and financial support. Partnering to build world-class recruitment businesses, on a joint venture platform and turning equity into personal wealth.

MULTI-AWARD-WINNING RECRUITMENT INVESTMENT FIRM
Best Recruitment Start-Up Investment Firm – UK 2019, 2020 & 2021
Best Recruitment Business Investor 2020

Our success lies in our ability to provide not just knowledge, but also know-how.  We are a hand-picked team of experts who have built and exited numerous recruitment companies around the globe, offering a unique investment model, strategic counsel and proven value maximisation strategy, which we openly share, to take your business to the next level.

Since 2014, we’ve invested £8 million in over 38 ambitious founders. Recruitment Entrepreneur's success not only lies in our knowledge but in our know-how, 

- Across 35+ businesses in the portfolio
- Covering 35+ sectors.
- Operating in 20 countries
- The No1 investor for Start-up and Scale-up Recruitment businesses

Recruitment Entrepreneur is one of the world's most successful investors in recruitment businesses.

To find out more please get in touch a.chandel@recruitmentvc-int.com

Venture Capital, Private Equity

UK | GERMANY | AUSTRIA | NETHERLANDS | SPAIN | POLAND | CROATIA | CZECH REPUBLIC | SLOVAKIA | UKRAINE | UAE | SAUDIA ARABIA | INDIA | SINGAPORE | HONG KONG | CHINA | AUSTRALIA | NEW ZEALAND | USA | CANADA |

Investor | Investment Director | Regional Managing Director

Wurkr® - Your Hybrid Workplace!

Wurkr is the world’s most immersive and engaging video platform that replicates your physical office - online! You can communicate and work with your distributed or remote colleagues visibly and in real-time wherever they may be.

● Drive the investment rounds
● Setting the vision for the company and defining the overall strategy from launch to scale
● Continually monitoring the marketplace and analysing opportunities, providing competitive analysis, strategies, and tactics
● Assisting in the setting of strategy and objectives for the company
● Work with the CTO to ensure that the product roadmap matches the customer's needs
● Owning the operational budget and managing the burn rate

Co-Founder

Longlist.io

Advisor

Belong.co

KnownFour Ltd

We are a recruitment business with distinct specialist divisions:

•	Regulatory; Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk, Public Practice
•	Digital - Media, Advertising, Social
•	Information Security (InfoSec)
•	SaaS - Salesforce, ServiceNow, Pega, HCM
•	Data Protection - GDPR

We, the founders of KnownFour, each have over 20 years'​ of experience of running multi-national recruitment companies around the world.

Although we’ve run many successful recruitment businesses using a tried and tested model, we’ve built KnownFour with a brand new model. 

Our new model harnesses the skills, knowledge and networks of the market’s most experienced recruiters, by giving them the tools, freedom and autonomy to recruit exceptionally well. 

Each of our recruitment consultants has, on average, over ten year’s experience, and is an expert in their discipline.

They have helped every size of company, from the embryonic start-ups sourcing their critical first hires, to supporting multi-nationals with their long-term hiring strategies.
By combining our skills, knowledge and networks with a culture of service and autonomy, we aim to improve the recruitment experience for everyone: clients, candidates and consultants.

Investor | Co-Founder

Janikin Energy

Board Advisor

K2 Partnering Solutions

Consultant

Responsible for Strategy, Operations and Sales.

At K2, we recognize that the most valued asset to any business is its people, and our team of associates are committed to the K2 standard of relationships, excellence and quality.  

Professionalism and expertise, complemented by multilingualism and global reach, enable K2 to connect you with the right people for the toughest assignments.  Because after all, the best consultants in the industry don’t want a job, they want a challenge.

Global locations: 
Austin | Baar | Bangalore | Boston | Delhi | Genève | Istanbul | London | Mexico City | Moscow | Providence | San Francisco | São Paulo | Shanghai | Singapore | Stuttgart | Tokyo | Walldorf 

ERP - SOCIAL - MOBILE - ANALYTICS - CLOUD

Specialties
Global Enterprise Implementation Partners, SAP, Salesforce.com, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Siebel, ERP, CRM, Cloud, Mobile Enterprise, Energy Trading & Risk Management (ETRM), Trading Systems, SaaS, PaaS, Recruiting, Staffing, Consulting, Business Intelligence, IaaS, Green IT

Partner & Director

Childreach International

Childreach International India is the Indian arm of Childreach International. 

We are part of the Childreach International family which has supported projects in India since 2008 and worked with over 70,000 children worldwide. 

As our operations expand, establishing a local presence in Delhi has helped strengthen our work and ensure best practice in our development activities across India. 

The Childreach International India office was opened in February 2010.

Board of Directors (India)

Various SME, MNC Companies

Various independent advisory assignments undertaken:
-	Country Director to a GBP£100m global enterprise staffing company for India entry and APAC expansion
-	Country Director to a GBP£500m International IT recruitment Plc for India entry
-	Management Consultant to MNC Telecom Vendor for SE Asia executive hiring strategy
-	Non Executive Director to a UK media recruitment company

Advisor | NED | Startup Consultant

SThree India Private Limited (Huxley Associates)

Huxley Associates, part of a FTSE 250 organisation, is an international recruitment consultancy which provides bespoke recruitment services to our clients and candidates around the world. Established in 1995, we have enjoyed rapid growth, and our established network of offices in Hong Kong, the UK, USA and across Europe, has now been further expanded with our move into India.

Our networks of dedicated consultants are adept at sourcing highly-skilled professionals for the following sectors:

Banking & Finance 
IT 
Mobile Telecom 

With an international reach, we are able to meet the recruitment needs of a diverse range of companies, which includes major banks and multinational corporations as well as local SMEs and smaller firms.

Adhering to the highest standards and best practices, our commitment to high-end recruitment, and the placement of exceptional professionals, is unparalleled.

Country Director

Entrepreneur backed by a professional career spanning 3 continents and 3 decades in high-growth sectors. Hands-on leader with technology, strategy, operations, and finance experience. Proven track record of delivering exceptional financial and strategic results as an owner-operator and consultant.

Experience across multiple industries including Technology, Staffing, Financial, Energy and Retail.

International expertise in both the developed (UK/Europe/USA) and emerging geographies (Asia/Middle East/Africa).

Functional experience:

•	Strategy
•	Brand Development
•	Technology (SaaS/Video/Collaboration/Staffing/AI)
•	Fundraising/Investment
•	Sales/Commercial
•	Transformation/Recovery
•	Value creation
•	Mentoring
•	Advisory

Some recent successes:

•	Invented a unique immersive digital workspace platform
•	Received the coveted Red Herring Top 100 Europe – 2021
•	Built a business with over 1million subscribers
•	Changed the way thousands of people are working from anywhere in the world
•	Raised US$2m in Seed funding

If you want to chat or would like to get involved with what I’m doing please feel free to send me a message!

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